Even then Asaram (Asaram)will not come out of jail

Jodhpur. The Rajasthan High Court on Monday granted bail to self-styled godman Asaram (Asaram) in a case related to submitting a fake Right to Information (RTI) reply in support of his bail in the Supreme Court, but he will have to remain in jail for the time being. Asaram, convicted of sexually assaulting a minor, will not be able to come out of jail. Granting bail to Asaram, Justice Kuldeep Mathur of the Jodhpur bench of the high court said that the petitioner had no direct role in fabricating the fake RTI reply submitted before the apex court and the offenses alleged to have been committed by him are worthy of consideration by the magistrate’s court.

In the year 2018, Asaram was sentenced to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting a minor of his ‘Gurukul’. The court also took into account that co-accused Ravirai Marwah has already been granted bail and the trial is likely to be prolonged.

Case was registered in 2016
Marwah, one of Asaram’s supporters, had submitted a fake RTI reply in 2016 regarding the health condition of the self-styled godman to the Supreme Court for the purpose of bail. After this a case was registered against Asaram.

The document was allegedly obtained through an application filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act by a person named Ganesh Kumar from Jodhpur Jail. After this it was given to Marwah. Marwah later handed it over to Asaram’s lawyer in the apex court, but it was later found that the document was forged.